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| Below is a list of the artists who have recently exhibited in our downstairs gallery. | In the shop we also carry many unframed original artworks and prints by these artists and others. | If you would like to receive notification of forthcoming exhibitions, please |
Colour and simplicity are at the heart of Michelle Cobbin’s practice. Influenced by 20 years of yoga and meditation experience, and drawing upon her study of Visual Culture, she deliberately locates her work in the pared down abstract genre.
The paintings develop out of layers and repetition as she explores the relationship between scale and colour, the contrasts between quietness and intensity, and the shifting borderlines between vigour and serenity.
One of her favourite quotes that highlights the link between the practice of mindful awareness and how one approaches a work of art is from John Berger: “We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves. Our vision is continually active, continually moving, continually holding things in a circle around itself, constituting what is present to us as we are” (Ways of Seeing).
Michelle Cobbin is based in Brighton. She studied Visual Culture and Fine Art at the University of Brighton.
Kimbal Quist Bumstead is an interdisciplinary artist based in London whose work sits between painting, drawing, video and performance. Kimbal’s work is cathartic, explosive and colourful. He creates paintings using translucent layers of varnish, oil paint and ink to create visceral body-like abstract forms.
He holds an MA in Performance and Theatre from Queen Mary University of London, and a BA in Fine Art from the University of Leeds and the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland.
Andrew Carter & Helen Ireland
LIMITED EDITION PRINTS AND PAINTINGS
8th May - 15th June
Andrew and Helen met at Central St Martins in the 1980s where they both studied fine art painting. They now live in East Dulwich with their two children.
In this body of work called The Gossips characters have been taken from various historical paintings; prints; and photographs of people playing blind man’s buff. The characters are all behaving fairly innocently but just like gossip, they have been taken out of context so that they look as if they are doing something else. The resulting scenes are more salacious and gossipy than their original beginnings.
I extend my experience of the world by making art. This invariably results in chaos, sometimes in an acceptable order, which can be called a painting, and is about mark making, drawn, painted, scratched, gouged, flooded, scrubbed, stuck, dried or dusted.
David Taylor
CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPES
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14th December 2017 - 31st January 2018
Taylor studied architecture and design at the London Design School.
His career led him to travel extensively, visiting many countries and diverse landsacpes across the world.
This experience had a powerful effect on him and initally inspired him to begin painting.
With a degree in Art History, Lucy has more recently received a Fine Art Diploma at The Art Academy, London.
‘My intention is for my paintings to trigger a daydream in the viewer. I paint subjects engaging the familiar and commonplace - to create a sense of recognition and that can allow the viewer to overlay the painting with their own mental imagery.’
Sophie Knight graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in 1989 and has exhibited widely in London. Her work is housed in numerous private and public collections including The House of Lords, the Prime minister’s private chamber and The British Museum.
Sophie was elected a full member of The Royal Watercolour Society in 2003. She has run numerous watercolour workshops. In 2016 she was invited to run a two day painting course in Buckingham Palace gardens as part of the Queen’s 90th Birthday Celebrations.
In her sparse still life paintings of solitary silver vessels, artist Harriet Porter strips away distractions to capture the glinting light as it falls on her subject and the surrounding surface.
Strong emphasis is given to simple elegant composition and the subtle gradations of colour temperature. With these limitations imposed, she concentrates her aim towards the play of light and shadow; focus and line, obsessively balancing these elements within the frame. Porter studied at Central Saint Martins. She paints from life in her peaceful studio in Brixton. Her work reflects this tranquil sanctuary and escape from frenetic city life: The solitary object basking in uncluttered space.
Anna Dickerson and Sandra Fernandez
NATURAL SELECTION: BIRDS AND FLORA
1st May - 31st May
Natural Selection: an Exhibition of Bird and Botanical paintings. Anna’s Garden Birds are distilled into bold layered acrylic paintings. Sandra’s detailed floral watercolours show the intensity of nature’s intrinsic beauty. This is their first joint exhibition.
In her beautifully crafted paintings Sophy explores the visually dramatic effects of certain temporal and atmospheric conditions on otherwise everyday scenes. As ever, light is of predominant interest to Sophy in her work, she continues to favour strong direct sunlight as it throws the outline of every object into sharp relief.
Andrew Carter & Helen Ireland
WALKING THE THAMES BACKWARDS
23rd January - 27th February
Andrew and Helen met at Central St Martins in the 1980s where they both studied fine art painting. They now live in East Dulwich with their two children.
Helen Ballardie’s paintings and drawings have been exhibited in Museums and galleries throughout the UK and Europe. She was Artist in Residence at The Royal Shakespeare Company, and her work is in several collections worldwide.
Helen Ballardie lives and works in London.
Lindis Richards qualified with a BA in fine art from Leeds University in 1971. She has successfully developed her water-colour painting style with a particular interest in “plein air” painting to capture the freshness and “surprise” elements of a scene newly discovered or seen at different times and in varied conditions.
Taylor studied architecture and design at the London Design School.
His career led him to travel extensively, visiting many countries and diverse landsacpes accross the world.
This experience had a powerful effect on him and initally inspired him to begin painting.
Lucy Bainbridge works mainly with screen print; her works are quiet reflections of the brief and changing images that we pass everyday.
Arabella qualified in 2002 with an M.A. in Fine Art from Central St Martins College of Art and Design.
This is her second show at Jane Newbery after the great success of the last one in 2014.
She lives and works in London.
Kirstin Handley’s delicate mixed media paintings speak from the heart, inspired by her love of the English countryside and encouraged by music. She exhibits regularly in and around London, and has sold her work worldwide.
Lucy studied fine art drawing and painting at Glasgow school of Art 1994-1998. She has exhibited regularly, and was accepted and hung at The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2012.
Working from sketches drawn on location, Lucy builds compositions using shapes, lines and colour.
Edori Fertig
Greg Becker
NARRATIVE SPACES
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11 February 2016 - 15 March 2016
Greg Becker studied illustration at the Royal College of Art before working extensively as a freelance illustrator for many leading publishing houses. He now works mainly as an artist, producing intimate and atmospheric paintings inspired by his local environment.
Edori Fertig is a local artist and maker who has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. Her theme for the Narrative Spaces exhibition, features redrawn found photographs collaged into complex layered drawings and paintings of her Dulwich garden and studio.
Lydia Gardner
Michelle House
PAINTINGS, TEXTILE WORKS AND PRINTS
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11 December 2015 - 31 January 2016
Lydia is a painter whose current collection of abstract works evoke the colours and atmosphere she has captured on her travels in Spain. The Jane Newbery collection features unseen work, following an artist career of 15 years.
Michelle is an established printed textile artist and designer, who works from her studio in South London. Her unique abstract style is easily recognisable, with darting black lines that wind and weave their way across the surface of colour-drenched fabrics.
Jodie Glen-Martin graduated with honours from De Montfort University in conservation and restoration in 1995.
Working from her West London studio, Jodie focuses on familiar objects, capturing elements of their two dimensional form and experimenting with scale and repetition to create energetic discordant patterns.
With a degree in Art History, Lucy has more recently received a Fine Art Diploma at The Art Academy, London. She exhibited this year in The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
‘My intention is for my paintings to trigger a daydream in the viewer. I paint subjects engaging the familiar and commonplace - to create a sense of recognition and that can allow the viewer to overlay the painting with their own mental imagery.’
Half Moon Printmakers is a purpose built printmaking studio, situated in an old bakery in West Dulwich, South London where a wide range of fine art prints are produced.
This exhibition features prints from Karen Keogh, Sonia Rollo and Susie Perring.
Victoria graduated from Reading University in 2008 with a 1st class degree in fine art.
Her work is predominantly inspired by a passion for children's literature and the paintings aim to reveal only a glimpse of a story, letting the viewer imagine their own wider narrative.
I extend my experience of the world by making art. This invariably results in chaos, sometimes in an acceptable order, which can be called a painting, and is about mark making, drawn, painted, scratched, gouged, flooded, scrubbed, stuck, dried or dusted.
Max has photographed some of south London’s most beautiful and interesting parks, gardens and nature reserves and exploring their changing characters through the seasons.
His work has appeared in Homes and Gardens magazine and at the Landscape Photographer of the Year exhibition at the National Theatre and the International Garden Photographer of the Year awards.
Since gaining a First Class Honours Degree in 1991, Helen has exhibited throughout the UK and abroad.
Last year she exhibited in The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and also received 1st Prize in The Dulwich Picture Gallery Open Exhibition.
Paul Benjamins is London born and trained at Camberwell School of Art and The Royal College of Art.
He has exhibited widely in solo and group shows throughout England, France and further afield.
Lesley O’Mara is a graduate of Central St Martins and has exhibited at various London galleries including Bankside and The Mall.
Frances Beck was born in Ayrshire and trained at Glasgow School of Art. She moved to London where she formed a partnership with Ernest Blyth as designer goldsmiths, exhibiting widely and twice winning the prestigious De Beers Diamonds International Award.
After Ernest’s untimely death Frances returned to painting and learned the art of printmaking under the tutelage of the late Dorothea Wight.
Anna Dickerson graduated from Glasgow School of Art and Rhode Island School of Design in 1995.
‘Garden Residents’ is Anna Dickerson’s second solo exhibition at the Jane Newbery Gallery. Anna’s incisive Bird paintings and drawings have an enduring presence, distilling a passage of time into images at once bold and delicate.
Torie Wilkinson qualified with a BA from The Ruskin School in Oxford.
She has exhibited extensively in London and this is her fourth show at Jane Newbery.
Arabella qualified in 2002 with an M.A. in Fine Art from Central St Martins College of Art and Design.
She lives and works in London.
Greg Becker's new paintings are mostly inspired by his daily walks around the Dulwich area were he has lived and worked as a professional artist and illustrator for many years.
The exhibition features scenes from Dulwich and Peckham Rye parks as well as memories of visits to Wales and the south coast, possibly triggered by the sight of Local seagulls.
Also showing are still life paintings of winter flowers & autumn fruits.
Local artist, Grace Aza-Selinger, has created a series of portraits with a focus on Dulwich residents. The idea behind the project is to capture the diverse range of people living here and the unique factors which give Dulwich its village mentality.
Since graduating from University College Falmouth with a diploma in Fine Art, Grace has had four solo shows in central London as well as collaborated on seven group shows. She is currently working from her studio in Bermondsey, South London.
Teresa McGrath and Joss Taylor
THE GENERATION GAP
23 January 2014 - 7 March 2014
This mother and son show deals with the influence of each other’s work and the overlapping of ideas through the use of photography and painting.
Teresa studied at Sheffield College of Art, Manchester College of Art and the Royal College of Art.
Joss studied at Kensington and Chelsea College of Art and is in his final year at Kingston College of Art.
Julie’s paintings originate in both the experienced and the wished-for, passing thoughts and passing dreams. Through colour, tone and shape they hope to distil fragments of individual, personal memories and emotions to allow momentary contemplation of something more universally familiar, more felt than learned.
Born in Canada, Liz studied Fine Art and Theatre at the University of Victoria before moving to London to pursue a career as a theatrical propmaker. Liz worked on west end shows for 20 years before deciding to re-engage with her art practice, completing an MA in Drawing at Camberwell in 2008. Liz has exhibited in numerous group and solo shows in London, and has work in private collections in the UK and Canada.
The work in VERGES explores Liz's interest in landscape, from a ground level perspective.
I make commissioned portraits, still lifes, and more abstract pieces, using a variety of materials.
If there is any kind of philosophy behind what I do, it is the appeal of the idea that something as formal and prescribed as a portrait or a still life can be rendered with random pieces of printed paper.
Joel Cable has exhibited in the United States and London. His work has been commissioned by many private and commercial clients including Liberty of London and has featured in various US and UK publications such as Stylist magazine and The Sunday Times.
Joel is a West Dulwich local and works from his studio in Deptford.
Born in London in 1985, Mary trained at Wimbledon College of Art, Kensington & Chelsea College and gained a 1st Class Degree at Edinburgh College of Art.
These works are associated with place and space and are fuelled by the artist’s preoccupation with maps, science and astronomy. Research by the artist into early cartography and recent lunar landscape imagery shows the scope of sources used.
Anna Dickerson graduated from Glasgow School of Art and Rhode Island School of Design in 1995.
Following her residency at London Zoo she embarked upon a new series of Wildfowl, working in acrylic and oil paint.
Wild Residents shows some of these bold paintings.
Taylor studied architecture and design at the London Design School.
His career led him to travel extensively, visiting many countries and diverse landsacpes accross the world.
This experience had a powerful effect on him and initally inspired him to begin painting.
Frances Lee
TREES ARE A FEW OF MY FAVOURITE THINGS
13th September - 28th October 2012
This time my work is largely focussed around two sites, the Heygate in Elephant and Castle and the Folkestone Harbour train station (Folkestone being my home town).
Both sites are unused at present and waiting for something to happen.
I paint in acrylic, oil and watercolour, my work dividing roughly into three kinds: a representational but personal view of landscape, zinc plate etchings which depict figures in rural landscape and more recently linocut prints with more of a London flavour!
The continuing focus of Daisy's work is an exploration of half-grasped dreamworlds, to create mysterious and compelling images, rich in suggestion.
An atmosphere at once serene and unsettling is conjured here, a melancholic place inhabited by fragile and enigmatic figures, human and animal.
I am a painter working in mixed media. My paintings are organised into collections, which each follow a thread of exploration.
I often return to a thread as other ideas or thoughts emerge, so each collection continues to grow.
Sheila Anderson Hardy
NEW DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS
4 November 2011 - 29 November 2011
A graduate of Glasgow School of Art, I have lived and worked in South East London for over 25 years.
My output includes textile designs, botanical and general illustration for a variety of publications.
I now concentrate on drawings and paintings inspired by my domestic surroundings and the rich diversity of the natural and built environment.
My paintings are influenced by light and colour and I am particularly interested in the work of the 1950’s abstract expressionists.
A starting point might be a photograph or view but the visual equivalent is influenced by memory, recording fragments and glimpses of the world in the language of paint.
Torie's recent work focuses on the urban landscape and London in particular, looking to capture how we live in and relate to the seemingly impersonal city.
Recent shows include The Threadneedle Prize, 2009. “Rival to the Turner Prize … full of constant surprises.” BBC Radio 4, Front Row.
This exhibition captures a moment of flux, giving a vivid insight into the dynamic processes used by Bella Easton as she moves between larger artistic projects.
Concrete Moss consists of studies and drawings in which Easton pulls apart, reconsiders and reforms previous pieces, in her journey towards new work.
Terry Ryan
CHANGING PERSPECTIVE
19 April 2010 - 30 May 2010
Terry Ryan's diverse practice encompasses installation, painting, drawing, collage, stained-glass and sculpture.
Currently he is using maps from his 1,066-strong collection of admiralty charts to make individual works, while at the same time working on a major 106-map floor installation of the coastline of Australia.
I have always had a strong affinity with animals, especially horses.
The horse has always been a striking force of nature for me.
My most recent work tries to capture various aspects of this animal. In this work I am attempting to use the sparse poetry of design and purity of colour.
Taylor studied architecture and design at the London Design School.
His career led him to travel extensively, visiting many countries and diverse landsacpes accross the world.
This experience had a powerful effect on him and initally inspired him to begin painting.
Having trained as a textile designer I have developed a method of working which enables me to work in a free spontaneous way.
Using a blank silk screen and painting through the mesh I print the first level of a picture.
This is always too flat so I will then build up the imagery by overprinting, drawing into, scraping away or simply painting over.
Developed from a sense of loss and yearning, much of Laura’s work explores how our sentiments towards the countryside, are shaped by our art and culture.
For this reason, her research looks at the traditions of landscape painting. Laura is interested in the genre’s lowly status, out-datedness and sometimes dismissal.
Caroline Jane Harris explores dynamic patterns embodied in all things living and man-made, ciphers formed through geometric shapes and organic growth.
Formations in trees, bronchi of a lung, river networks, lightning and neural activity all demonstrate fractal characteristics (shapes which recur over many scales of magnification).
Torie Wilkinson
AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY TORIE WILKINSON
11th June 2010 - 30th July 2010
Torie's recent work focuses on the urban landscape and London in particular, looking to capture how we live in and relate to the seemingly impersonal city.
Recent shows include The Threadneedle Prize, 2009. “Rival to the Turner Prize … full of constant surprises.” BBC Radio 4, Front Row.
Born in London in 1985, Mary trained at Wimbledon College of Art, Kensington & Chelsea College and gained a 1st Class Degree at Edinburgh College of Art.
She was recently awarded the Royal Scottish Academy’s Kinross Scholarship to study in Florence. Mary currently splits her time between London and Edinburgh.
